Quatermain (Stewart Granger) is acting as a guide for big game hunters in Africa in 1897. John Goode (Richard Carlson) comes to him with a strange request: to take him and his sister, Elizabeth Curtis (Deborah Kerr) into the interior, following in the footsteps of her lost husband, Henry Curtis. Although at first reluctant, a large sum of cash changes Quatermain's mind and he takes the pair on many adventures as they try to find Henry and his goal, the diamond mines of King Solomon. On the way, they encounter jungles and deserts, poisonous snakes, crocodiles, an escaped murderer, and the Watusi tribe.

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) is an entertainer at the Kit Kat Klub, a German hot spot where the festivities are hosted by a charming Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey). She is determined to become a movie star, and is willing to bed whomever she has to for the opportunity to take a screen test. Brian Roberts (Michael York) is a mild-mannered young man from England who wants to rent a room at the boarding house Sally resides in. To support himself, he gives English lessons, through which he meets Fritz Wendel (Fritz Wepper), a nice, down on his luck guy who decides that wooing fellow student Natalia Landauer (Marisa Berenson), daughter of a wealthy Jewish businessman, will solve his financial woes. Meanwhile, Sally and Brian are becoming friends and Sally has more than friendship on her mind.

Vanya is a six-year-old boy who lived with many other boys in a run-down Russian orphanage. The headmaster is overwhelmed by the challenges of taking care of these children, most of whom were abandoned by their parents. One of the brightest moments in the lives of these bedraggled and lonely children had came when "Madam" showed up with parents who wanted to adopt a child.
Vanya lucked out enough . He was chosen by a rich Italian couple who immediately have fell in love with him. The other orphans felt envy him and his good fortune to be given the chance for a better life. But Vanya was not so sure. The boy dreamed to find his own mother, so he decided to set off in search of her. It was the period of the opening and encounters with the mysterious and dangerous world. The world of children with their own laws. And there is sometimes one's heart speaks louder than an intellect.

Cast a Giant Shadow is the true-life story of the American soldier David "Mickey" Marcus. In 1949, the British pulled out of the newly formed country Israel, leaving it poorly defended. Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) is asked to shape the untrained and disorganized Israeli army into a more potent force. (The real-life Marcus did notable duty in WWII, including parachuting during D-Day even though he wasn't trained as a paratrooper.) Over objections from his US commander (John Wayne) and his wife (Angie Dickinson), Marcus accepts. In Israel, he finds quite a challenge in negotiating the personalities and conflicts involved from an American daredevil pilot (Frank Sinatra) to a wise politician to an attractive freedom fighter. To top that off, Israel suddenly finds itself involved in a full-scale war, giving Marcus and his troops their toughest test.

The film begins in the mid-21st century, long after a virus has forced the surviving members of the human race to live underground. Bruce Willis stars as James Cole, a convict who is sent to 1996, immediately before the virus' release, on a fact-finding mission. Time-travel technology is apparently not quite perfect, however; he lands in 1990 and ends up in a mental hospital, where he is subjected to the ramblings of fellow patient Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt). He tries to explain his mission to Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeline Stowe); she doubts him, of course, but his ability to predict future events and seemingly hop around in time eventually convince her that he might be telling that truth, and that they must try to stop the oncoming plague.

12-year-old Tanya Nechayeva decided to become a «searcher» and find the people who spearheaded the pioneer movement. The impressions taken from these meetings are saved in her soul. She gradually grows up and says goodbye to her childhood.